Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife Lela return to their modest home in Darrtown, where, he says, "I can stand in my back door and shoot chicken hawks off the fence." His winters are spent bird hunting, skeet shooting, playing bridge, woodworking, shooting pool and riding his five-gaited horses with his two grandchildren. "They never took the country out of this boy," he says proudly. "I wouldn't trade my off-season living in Darrtown for any other way of life...
...Ervin walks through the Capitol these days, tourists poke each other delightedly: "Look, it's him." Last week the Senator had his four grandchildren in town to attend the hearings. One evening he took them out to dinner at a restaurant on Capitol Hill and everywhere along the way he was stopped by people who wanted to shake his hand. A fundamentally shy man, Ervin is both pleased and embarrassed by all the attention. Said twelve-year-old Bobby Ervin, establishing that a talent for home-grown simile runs in the family...
...merely wanted to reiterate her view that Nixon should resign. "I don't like Agnew, but my God, I think he's better than Nixon. I've told my husband repeatedly that I may not be here many years, but Marty will be, and his grandchildren." For good measure, she telephoned NBC and spoke to Newsman Peter Hackes, insisting yet again that Nixon "knew all about" the Watergate coverup. It all had a familiar and increasingly sad ring...
...Rotarian and former Sunday school teacher, the silver-haired native of Kansas City occasionally gardens but has few interests outside of his work, his wife Ruby, two grown children and two grandchildren. Those who work with him say he is affable, even-tempered and taciturn. In high school he was nicknamed "Chief" because his slightly stooped frame (6 ft., 200 lbs.) resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted...
...eight Alsatian dogs and forbidding signs, the public was invited to tramp through house and grounds for the benefit of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. While Getty stayed closeted in his private quarters, the visitors saw few clues to his notoriously private life except for photos of his grandchildren, his books (including Richard Nixon's Six Crises) and his lions, Teresa and Nero, with whom Getty likes to spend an hour...